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| Drinking window: Drink between 2021 and 2025 (based on 5 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 17 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jimyeni on 10/2/2021 & rated 93 points: Fragrant nose of cherry and dark fruits, maybe a touch too much alcohol on the nose. On the palate it’s got a great middle, vibrant. Quite enjoyable. Price jumped a lot after 2014 which is a bit tough to swallow. (1397 views) | | | Tasted by Lahontan on 2/10/2021 & rated 95 points: Presentation: a little over the top: the vintage is inscribed on a white medal of sorts that is glued and tied around the bottle. A bottle which is in typical big-dick Californian style, big. The idea being with these wines, that bigger is better. ... (see what Jancis Robinson has to say about this, its funny). And then the dog motif.... Who doesn't like dogs, etc, etc...
Well, behind all this very self conscious gimmickry lies a weighty, substantial wine. The nose is immediately present, as though someone rang a bell! The sound is a smell and it says "fruit!" Red fruit but also hints of banana, it is enveloping, comforting. The mouthfeel is substantial, viscous, coating. A finish that lasts very long, and there it is, a wine behind all the makeup! Like a one night stand that actually seems like it may turn out to be more...
The bottles I got were covered in dust in my local shop, potential customers turned off by the little red cord and the "medal" and so on... so I got the rest, but now the 14 is out and the 15 and 16 are nearly double the price. One night stand after all then. (1791 views) | | | Tasted by drycreekwhine on 11/22/2020 & rated 93 points: Consumed about ten years too early. This was excellent upon opening, great three hours later, and will be fantastic in 2030. (1798 views) | | | Tasted by djjagdish on 7/20/2020 & rated 92 points: Cigar box, currant, black olive, bay leaf, and raspberry give this a tightly wound Oakville feel that almost wants to open up full throttle but remains restrained through the long finish. (1961 views) | | | Tasted by Pluecht on 4/10/2020 & rated 93 points: Full bodied. Tannins need time to relax. Age. (2163 views) | | | Tasted by JustBert on 3/25/2020 & rated 89 points: Easy to drink. Really enjoyed this wine (1262 views) | | | Tasted by ralaspech on 1/12/2020 & rated 90 points: Modest nose of red fruit, with graphite, tobacco and green pepper. Tastes of currant, cherry, cedar, leather and tobacco. Good balance and drinking well now. (1029 views) | | | Tasted by Winowhyno on 1/29/2019 & rated 90 points: Another year in the cellar made quite a difference....very tame tannins...beautiful mouthful of grapes (1429 views) | | | Tasted by I_drink_beer on 12/8/2018 & rated 95 points: Full bodied; raspberries move into tar and pipe tobacco. Amazing. Tannins are still gripping. Absolutely buy. (1140 views) | | | Tasted by fah on 10/21/2018 & rated 89 points: This wine is easy drinking, soft tannins and mild acidity. If you like a big, robust cab, then you won't like this. Bought at Costco for $29. Won't buy again (1105 views) | | | Tasted by Winowhyno on 12/1/2017 & rated 88 points: Big nose...strong tannins....not quite balanced...probably will benefit for another year or 2 in the cellar. Won't open the next bottle until early 2019 (959 views) |
| By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, California, Napa Valley: Napa’s Exuberant, Powerful 2015s (12/29/2017)
(Hoopes Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Oakville) Login and sign up and see review text. | By James Button
Decanter, Tasting room varied (12/14/2017)
(Hoopes, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Oakville, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (7/9/2017)
(Hoopes Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Oakville, Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text. |
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| Hoopes Vineyard Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Oakville |
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